Surprised
Don't know the details of this particular story but I've been doing hospital\medevac flights with my air force for a couple of years throughout europe at strange times, with "dodgy" non-existent flight plans, lots of changes of route destination inflight and controllers always helped a lot......sometimes even cooperated breaking one or two rules to get a person needing an urgent transplant on the ground.
I'm sure there must be a reason; on the other hand my boss never went to any Airwarfare symposium telling about that time I or anybody else in the squadron did....what we and every professional aviator do everyday.
Be aware of the local rural america newspaper! As you probably know Charleston is a c17 base.
Ciao